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February 3rd marked the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 15th Amendment, which was adopted to give Black people access to the ballot after the defeat of the slavocracy. We can honor the amendment by fighting to keep its promise.

Risk of Nuclear War Rises as U.S. Deploys a New Nuclear Weapon for the First Time Since the Cold War

The two-state solution is no longer a viable political objective or a useful plan for thinking about the problem. Officially, however, it is still honored, even by those who privately know the truth. It is, in effect, a “Dead Solution Walking.”

Republican devotion to the Great Dictator held. Trump is gloating. But impeachment responded to a challenge to democracy that had to be answered.

The ‘Spartacus’ star helped end the Hollywood blacklist

In one of the best decades the American economy has ever recorded, families were bled dry

Hasan Minhaj Sits Down With Bernie Sanders. The American Pie Is a Lot More Unequal Than People Imagine. Bob Marley at 75 | Redemption Song. We Know Why Nancy Pelosi Tore Up Trump's Speech. Mitt Romney's Statement on the Impeachment of Donald Trump.

Reader Comments: Guilty But Not Impeached; Bernie Sanders campaign; Martin Luther King's Legacy; Organizing Workers; Afghanistan, Guantánamo; Black History Month resources; Labor Scholarships available; Harry Belafonte celebration; Announcements;

‘This Is About Making a Very Large Number of Indians Second-Class Citizens’ CounterSpin interview with Vijay Prashad about Indian demonstrations. This Citizenship Amendment Act is essentially the last straw, particularly for young people

Persistent housing segregation lies at the root of many of our society’s problems. Trump wants to make it worse. This was not a peculiar Southern obsession, but consistent nationwide. In many hundreds of instances nationwide, mob violence....